Rip out all the u"..." literals and calls to unicode().
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_timeout.py b/Lib/test/test_timeout.py
index 94765d9..803ea9f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_timeout.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_timeout.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
         self.sock.settimeout(0.0)
         self.sock.settimeout(None)
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, self.sock.settimeout, "")
-        self.assertRaises(TypeError, self.sock.settimeout, u"")
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, self.sock.settimeout, "")
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, self.sock.settimeout, ())
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, self.sock.settimeout, [])
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, self.sock.settimeout, {})